# 5.2. If I try to add an application, the panel complains! Why?

If you try to drag an application to the panel, and it complains: "Cannot put this as button onto the panel", you have not dragged a kdelnk file, but an executable. To get this executable to the panel, you must first create a kdelnk file with "New | Program" from the File menu of the filemanager. Newer kpanel (comes with KDE 1.1 alpha) creates its own kdelnk file if you drop an executable on the panel, however.